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• Linguistics
  ...ambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521559676 Cambridge Ency. of Language]</center><center>by [[David Crystal]]</center>]] ...umber of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure ([[grammar]]) and the study of [[meaning]] ([[semantics]]). Gramm
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• Loquacious
  Fluency is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_language_pathology speech language pathology] term that means the smoothness or [[flow]] with which [[sounds]] ...rategies, and inaccurate word use. They may be illiterate, as well. Native language speakers are often incorrectly referred to as fluent.
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• Concepts
  ...in symbols. On other accounts, mastery of symbolic thought (in particular, language) is a prerequisite for conceptual thought. ...erro'' in Spanish. The fact that concepts are in some sense independent of language makes [[translation]] possible - words in various languages have identical
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• Language
  ...language. In some cases, this involves disentangling folk uses of the term language from scientific uses. ...uage''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
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• David Crystal
  ...ew up bilingual in Welsh and [[English]], which influenced his approach to language education. ...tron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).
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• Colonialism
  '''Colonialism''' is the establishment, [[exploitation]], [[maintenance]], acquisition and expansion of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony colonies] in one ter ...rg/wiki/Alexander_the_Great Athenian conquest] spurred the spread of Greek language, religion, science and philosophy throughout the colonies. The Athenians co
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• 2013-06-04-Of Attaining Perfection
  ...erstanding each other, and, incidentally, our improving use of the English language is an important part of why we can be at ease with each other. Our countles ...ividuals, but of families and entire nations – does slow our already tardy acquisition of self-mastery toward perfection. The answer to the scourge of criticism i
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• Sentence
  ...[explicitly] include a subject and a verb. For example, in second-language acquisition, teachers often reject one-word answers that only imply a clause, commandin As with all language [[expressions]], sentences might contain function and content words and con
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• Study
  *5. a. Application of [[mind]] to the acquisition of learning; mental labour, [[reading]] and [[reflection]] directed to lear ...action of studying (something specified or implied); mental effort in the acquisition of (some kind of learning); attentive reading of (a [[book]], etc.), or car
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• Gesture
  ...ody language]] in addition to words when they speak. The use of gesture as language by some ethnic [[groups]] is more common than in others, and the amount of ...f gesture, [[integration]] of gesture and [[speech]], and the evolution of language. Other prominent researchers in this field include Susan Goldin-Meadow and
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• 2002-11-14-Answering Questions
  ...have [[earned]] the right to retain that ability to move at speed. In our acquisition of [[knowledge]] and [[wisdom]], we will for ages be far ahead of you. On m "It is indeed the [[poverty]] of an extraordinarily [[primitive]] [[language]] that is disallowing you to push the boundaries further in this [[communic
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• English
  ...ages. Germanic, in turn, is a branch of the [[Indo-European]] family of [[language]]s. Subsequent to the establishment of English in "Englalond" (i.e., the la *By 600 A.D., the Germanic speech of England comprises dialects of a language distinct from the continental Germanic languages.
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• Yogini Cult and Temples
  ...ard; in fact, these documents are often couched in an intentional abstruse language called sandha bhasa, clear only to the initiate. Cults associated with tant ...y goddesses. The Matottara intimates that the aim of Yogini worship is the acquisition of a variety of occult powers and it also given an indication of the ritual
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• 2020-07-28-God as a Pronoun
  ...nced and created by many other factors. However, as you mature toward the acquisition of a pure spiritual being, you will integrate both male and female attribut ...However, as has happened before, we run up against the limitations of your language to describe cosmological realities. In most of your languages, “He” ref
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• Chamber 4
  '''Emotion-Soul Acquisition Techniques''' ...n their purpose to the soul. Neither the mind nor the soul speaks the same language, and thus the mind must explain the symbols' purpose to the soul through te
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• Senses
  ...ption. Most textbooks mention information processing theories of knowledge acquisition and include a three component model of [[human]] [[memory]] consisting of s ...xaggerated rises and falls. This speech may help infants with [[language]] acquisition by directing their attention to particular [[words]].
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• 130:4 Discourse on Reality
  ...nterpretation]]. The possibility of making mistakes is [[inherent]] in the acquisition of [[wisdom]], the [[scheme]] of progressing from the partial and [[tempora 130:4.12 Although [[Jesus]] told all this to the lad in [[language]] best suited to his [[comprehension]], at the end of the [[discussion]] Ga
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• Imagination
  ...e perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary [[language]], some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" Imagination in this sense, not being limited to the acquisition of exact knowledge by the requirements of practical necessity, is, up to a
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• 2010-04-16-Insidious Onslaught, Soul Hunger
  ...ngs to you, to yours, and to all who will read this transcript in whatever language, from the many of us (celestials) who know you well, and those who know of “The never-ending acquisition of ‘the latest’ and the debts it brings, and the regular ingestion of t
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• Cognitive Science
  ...ions about [[language]] as a learned habit and proposed instead to explain language comprehension in terms of mental grammars consisting of rules. The six thin ...ntifiable ways. A stroke, for example, in a part of the brain dedicated to language can produce deficits such as the inability to utter sentences. Like cogniti
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